posting/replying via email only?

[DavideBianchini]

Another request that some of our Yahoo Groups members had, is the ability to post/reply entirely through email. Is this a feature that XenForo has, whether natively or via plugin?

Thanks again for your quick responses,

Davide

 

[whynot]

No, it doesn't exist.

 

[StarArmy]

I feel like I've seen an add-on that does this but when I looked around I wasn't able to find one.

I wonder if the new API system could be used for this somehow.

 

[karll]

It's been suggested as a feature in the past:

Reply by Email

Many "bug" tracking applications use it... Would it be possible to implement a "Reply by Email" so users could actually just hit reply to a froum email and have it added to the forum as a post? I know the arguments - it would drive down traffic - but.... I would truly pay top dime for a forum...

xenforo.com

Lack of interest - Reply Via Email

Hello, Can we have an option where we can allow privileged usergroup to make a reply to a thread via notification email ? A lot of non tech user do try to reply to those email notification forum sent. It would come in handy if their reply can get posted to actual thread. It may increase forum...

xenforo.com

 

[DavideBianchini]

Darn,
This may be a deal-breaker for us. We have a number of members on our Yahoo Groups who only communicate via email. For this migration, we would prefer to keep this functionality so as to accommodate their needs.

I understand that phpBB has a plugin that can accomplish this.

-Davide

 

[karll]

Yes, it's a shame XF doesn't have this, not even as an add-on.

I understand that phpBB has a plugin that can accomplish this.

Discourse has this feature in the core:

Discourse features

Discover features your community will love.

www.discourse.org

 

[Vekseid]

I understand that phpBB has a plugin that can accomplish this.

-Davide

In addition to Discourse, Elkarte also has it as a core feature: https://www.elkarte.net/